2008/12/17 Phil Sandifer <[email protected]>: > > On Dec 17, 2008, at 1:45 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > >> What? WP:NOR barely mentions lit crit or anything related to it. It's >> a general policy that applies to literature as much as it does to >> science or history. I think you may be a little paranoid... > > Lit crit, however (or more broadly, English departments), is the > general discipline under which writing and research skills are taught > these days.
I disagree. A scientist learns how to read and write scientific papers in their science classes. A historian learns how to read and write historical papers in their history classes, etc. An English professor isn't going to know the first thing about judging the credibility of a paper on Quantum Electrodynamics. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
